According to Davidoff, “A range of the finest cigars inspired by the iconic aficionado each celebrating a different aspect of his richly complex character. A man of many layers and many dimensions. A man who was the embodiment of time beautifully filled. A man whose many facets added up to a personality which set him apart. A man who reveled in the richness of life and its many experiences. Who marched to the beat of his […]
The La Flor Dominicana Beer Stein was supposed to hit the shelves of retailers in late 2014, but after production delays it landed in early 2015 missing out on the Christmas season. Limited in production to 3,000 units the Beer Stein Edition 1994 is different from the regular release. According to La Flor Dominicana VP of Sales Jon Carney the Beer Stein Edition features a San Andreas Maduro wrapper in comparison to the Natural that […]
Today at work we are a little short-handed so I had to reach into my humidor to smoke something small. Being that we smoked the Hirochi Robaina on The Cigar Authority radio show yesterday, I decided to smoke something that my friend Lawrence was kind enough to send us. Check out the show, and see how we raved about the HR cigar. According to the Cubanacan website their tale begins in the rich tobacco history of […]
Today’s cigars showed up in the mail at The Cigar Authority, and to be honest I had never heard of them. According the literature that accompanies the Saga Blend No. 7, “Every new blend borrows from the past. Blend No. 7 did just that as it immediately stood out. It is the perfect combination of timeless knowledge of traditional tobaccos and the newer balance that today’s smokers expect and love in a fine cigar.” They are available […]
Gunslinger was created working with the likes of A.J. Fernandez. Kendall Culbertson set out to craft a medium to full body cigar with a profile of complexity and depth, this journey took over a year to create from start to finish. Kendall wanted to work with Habano 2000 seed to get a unique twist adding in Sumatra as binder with Nicaraguan and Honduran filler leaves. After many trips and taste testing over several months the Gunslinger Drifter […]
The La Aurora factory is the oldest cigar factory in the Dominican Republic, and their signature cigar is the Preferidos which comes in 6 different wrappers. The newest edition which is now a couple of years old is the Diamond, which features a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Late in 2014, the company released the Preferidos in a corona format for the territory covered by Mid-Atlantic sales representative Christopher Lenzo of Miami Cigar & Company who distributes […]
While conducting inventory last night at the shop I work for, Two Guys Smoke Shop (2GuysCigars.com) one of my co-workers found a box of Jose L. Piedra which utilizes short filler. If memory serves me correct and at 46 it is beginning to slip, the Jose L. Piedra is composed of short filler made from scraps of other Padron cigars. It is believed these were buried in inventory since 2010 but are now in my […]
Tis the season of cold weather, at least here in the Northeast. A lot of us can’t smoke in the house, so our size preference changes and we smoke smaller cigars if we have to be outdoors, so it won’t be as long as a more traditional vital. The BG Meyer Slackers which a follow-up to the Standard Issue fits that mold. Packaged in tins of 4, these cigars are developed by Henke Kelner at the Tabadom […]
20 Years ago, United Cigar released the La Gianna Havana featuring a Connecticut shade wrapper as a celebration of the birth of David Garofalo becoming a father to a beautiful baby girl named Gianna. A few years after that a Maduro was released. The blend is said to be a ramped up version of the natural featuring a maduro wrapper, and being we were in the mood for a Maduro this morning we opted to […]
It’s New Years Eve and at the stroke of midnight most people will be raising a glass of champagne to toast the new year, and what better way to end 2014 than to smoke a cigar named for where some of the best champagne in the world comes from. According to the Illusione website, “This blend originally debuted in 2008 through the European Cigar Cult Journal 15th anniversary limited release. Since then, Epernay has garnered […]